Chalbi Desert
The Chalbi Desert is a small desert in northern Kenya near the border with Ethiopia. It is east of Lake Turkana, within the Marsabit County. Marsabit is the closest major urban center.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Filiberto Strazzari, CC BY 2.0.
Chalbi Desert
- Type: Desert
- Description: desert in Kenya
- Category: landform
- Location: Marsabit County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
3.17052° or 3° 10′ 14″ northLongitude
37.35015° or 37° 21′ 1″ eastElevation
387 metres (1,270 feet)Open location code
6GMV59C2+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 467050934OpenStreetMap feature
natural=desert
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Chalbi Desert” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “صحراء شلبي”
- Armenian: “Չալբի անապատ”
- Azerbaijani: “Çalbi”
- Basque: “Chalbiko basamortua”
- Belarusian: “Чалбі”
- Bulgarian: “Чалби”
- Catalan: “Desert de Chalbi”
- Cebuano: “Chalbi Desert”
- Chinese: “查爾比沙漠”
- Dutch: “Chalbi Desert”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا شلبى”
- Esperanto: “Ĉalbi-Dezerto”
- Esperanto: “Chalbi-dezerto”
- French: “Désert de Chalbi”
- Georgian: “ჩალბის უდაბნო”
- Greek: “Έρημος Τσάλμπι”
- Hebrew: “מדבר צ’לבי”
- Italian: “deserto del Chalbi”
- Italian: “Deserto del Chalbi”
- Japanese: “チャルビ砂漠”
- Korean: “찰비 사막”
- Korean: “칼비 사막”
- Lithuanian: “Čalbio dykuma”
- Lithuanian: “Čalbis”
- Mingrelian: “ჩალბიშ ტიოზი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chalbi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chalbiørkenen”
- Norwegian: “Chalbi”
- Persian: “بیابان چلبی”
- Polish: “Chalbi Desert”
- Portuguese: “Deserto de Chalbi”
- Russian: “Чалби”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Chalbi Desert”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fàsach Chalbi”
- Serbian: “Pustinja Čalbi”
- Serbian: “Пустиња Чалби”
- Spanish: “Desierto de Chalbi”
- Swahili: “Jangwa la Chalbi”
- Swedish: “Chalbi Desert”
- Turkish: “Chalbi Çölü”
- Ukrainian: “Чалбі”
- Uzbek: “Chalbi choʻli”
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